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Insatiable desire for a pencil?
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YES
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Graphite is mined. Miners gather lumps of graphite ore
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Graphite dust is separated from impurities with oil and water to about 90% purity. Graphite can be wasted here as 100% purity is not easy to get.
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Graphite is rolled into cylinders for pencil cores and refined to the specifications their pencil type requires, in this case, #2
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Wood, in this case, Cedar is acquired via cutting down the trees (likely clear cut). This is a massive waste as nothing near 100% of the tree is used
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The process of the making of a pencil
